This blog is all about Pastoral Transition. How does the pastoral placement process work? What is an effective placement? What is the candidating process like? These are my reflections on the processes of candidacy, placement, and transition.

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Placement where God has called us

From The Work of the Pastor by William Still:

“We must be in our God-appointed place in the ministry. This is vitally important. A minister may be authentically called of God, and may have had abundant evidence in one place that God was there, but due to circumstances, personal or otherwise, a move to another place is made and the ministry goes dead. The new congregation is out of God’s will. Alas, all the plausible excuses in the world—the wishes of a spouse, the educational needs of a family, the difficulties of office-bearers and members, etc., will not justify a move out of God’s will.”

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Placement Reflections is now a part of Doulos Resources, a ministry dedicated to serving the church by providing high-quality resources to support the work of the church and the training of Christians for discipleship and service in the church.
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About Me

I grew up in Columbia, SC and attended the University of South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Later, I attended Covenant Theological Seminary and received a Master of Divinity degree.I married Marcie (née Ward) in 1998, and we have four children: Jack, Molly, Abbey, and Caroline.I am a husband, a father, a pastor, and a writer.

Pastoral Placement Network

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